EVENT INFORMATION

23
Yüli
1952

Free Officers overthrow Egypt’s monarchy and challenge British influence

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📅 23 Yüli 1952 📍 Egipto

The Free Officers Movement seized key positions in Cairo and announced the revolution, forcing King Farouk to abdicate days later. The officers opposed corruption, social inequality, and Egypt’s subordination to British power. The coup began a political transformation that later secured British withdrawal from the Suez Canal zone, though military rule and regional conflict shaped the new republic.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Muhammad Naguib

Anwar Sadat

King Farouk

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Free Officers Movement

Kingdom of Egypt